Mogul’s claim over hate e-mails ‘trails off like spaghetti’

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The libel case brought by Sir Martin Sorrell, the marketing tycoon, was like a bowl of spaghetti with “jumbled pieces of evidence” leading nowhere, a High Court judge was told.

Opening the defence case, Andrew Caldecott, QC, said that there was no evidence that linked Marco Benatti and Marco Tinelli, the Italian media consultants, to an internet hate campaign against Sir Martin after he had sacked them.

Lawyers for Sir Martin, the wealthy chief executive of the WPP marketing group, which is worth £7.5 billion, had described the case as a jigsaw puzzle with only one piece missing: evidence of